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The Integrated Supervision and Control System of the Gran Sasso Mountain The integrated supervision and control system of the Gran Sasso mountain F. Garzia INFOCOM Department University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Abstract A high safety and security level of a complex system is very difficult to be reached, guaranteed and managed if the system is characterized by a peculiar complexity and physical extension, due to the elevate number of parameters to be checked and controlled. The use of human resources needs an elevate number of personnel members that could not only be unable to reach the desired goal but could also be exposed to severe risks in the presence of dangerous and emergency situations. For this reason it is necessary to use integrated supervision and control systems that are capable of manage the elevate number of parameters involved, reducing the number of personnel members and increasing their functionalities and operativity. In this paper the integrated supervision and control system of the Gran Sasso mountain (Italy), characterized by a high and unique complexity from the international point of view, is illustrated. Keywords: integrated system, telecommunication system, safety system, security system, emergency management system. 1 Introduction The Gran Sasso (“big rock”) mountain is located in the centre of Italy, about 120 km est of Rome, between the L’Aquila city province and Teramo city province, in the Abruzzo region. It belongs to a system of mountains that practically separates the Adriatic sea (east) from Tirrenian sea (west) in the middle of Italy. The higher peak of Gran Sasso mountain is represented by Corno Grande (“big horn”), that is about 3000 metres above the sea level. Due to the elevate altitude, even if the mountain is not so far from the Adriatic sea, a permanent glacier is also present. On the high plane of Gran Sasso mountain, named Campo Imperatore (“Emperor high plane”) is also present a sky resort. Under the Gran Sasso mountain there is a separate double highway tunnel (one tunnel for traffic in the L’Aquila – Teramo direction and one tunnel in the Teramo – L’Aquila direction). These tunnels take the traffic from the west to the east side of central Italy and vice versa and they represent a vital connection for road traffic. The length of tunnel is of about 10 kms, that represent the second road tunnel of Italy, in term of length, after the Monte Bianco (“white mountain”), that is anyway one of the longer road tunnel at the international level (even if single tunnel while the Gran Sasso is double tunnel). Fig.1 Partial view of Gran Sasso mountain from L’Aquila side. Inside the mountain the underground Gran Sasso mountain National Laboratories (GSNL) of Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) are also present. They are located 1400 meters under the central rocky mass, named Eagle Mountain. The offices and the directional centre are located 1 km away from the Assergi highway exit (in the L’Aquila city province) and they extend on a 12.000 square meters surface while some technical installations (fanning, electrical supply, etc.) are located on the other side of Gran Sasso mountain (in the Teramo city province) just outside the highway tunnel, in a site named Casale S. Nicola location. The entrance of GSNL is located in the Teramo – L’Aquila direction tunnel using a passage reserved to the laboratory traffic and created by means of a narrowing of about 1 km of the tunnel road in the correspondence of underground laboratories. The GSNL are the biggest and most important underground laboratories of the world characterized by a unique environment for the kind of research that is made inside them. Further, they have been realized on purpose and not recovering or adapting already existing structures, such as active or closed mine (KAMIOKANDE in Japan and SNO in Canada). Fig.2 3D view of the laboratories and part of highway tunnels. The design, the approval and the public financing have been possible thanks to the simultaneous drilling and construction, in ’70-’80 years, of the highway tunnels in the same zone. The GSNL realization started in 1982 and the construction of the first experimental apparatus started only 4 years later, in 1986, when the first tunnel was opened to the public traffic. The underground laboratories are mainly constituted by 3 experimental rooms, whose dimensions are about 100 x 20 x 20 meters, and by a series of connection tunnels that are used for the installations necessary for the correct functioning of the laboratories and for hosting secondary and reduced dimension experimental devices. The total internal volume is about 180.000 m 3. Actually there are about 15 experiments currently working in the 3 experimental rooms and in some connection tunnels. It is there evident that in the Gran Sasso mountain are present a lot of subjects that make specific activities (INFN laboratories, highway, aqueduct, etc.) and for this reason the Gran Sasso mountain represents a wide and complex system where each component interacts, unavoidably, with the other components. In fact, for example, the highway represents the only entrance to the laboratories, where not only people but also all the installations (such as electrical, fanning, cooling, telecommunications, etc.) that guarantee the correct functioning and the safety of laboratories, must pass through. This implies that a possible accident inside the highway tunnels can compromise not only the stability and reliability of the installations of laboratories but also the capability for fire brigades, highway tunnel personnel and emergency teams of reaching the laboratories. The same happens if an accident takes place inside the laboratories. For this reason the emergency plans related to one of the subjects which operates inside the Gran Sasso mountain must consider also the other present subjects. This characteristic gives to Gran Sasso mountain an extreme oneness at the international level. Fig. 3 Plant of highway tunnels with INFN laboratories (in the middle, upper side). L’Aquila city direction is on the left side while Teramo direction is on the right side. Tunnels are about 10 kms long. Due to the multitude of people, systems, devices and installations that must be controlled and that must communicate each other, it is evident that the Gran Sasso mountain, to be managed securely in the best way, needs to use intensively advanced technologies finalized to obtain a high and efficient quality of functionality, performances and services [1-5]. To increase the safety and security level of people that operate in Gran Sasso and to protect the unique natural environment, in July 2003 the Italian Government, through the Department of Civil Protection, designated a Delegate Commissioner of Government. The integrated supervision and control system presented in this paper was studied and designed by the author during his activity of consultant of Delegate Commissioner of Government, concerning the safety and security aspects of Gran Sasso. Fig. 4 Transversal schematization of Gran Sasso mountain system. Due to the complexity of Gran Sasso mountain and of the subjects that operate in it, the mentioned system represents a unique object at the international level in term of functionalities and reliability, greatly increasing the safety and security of people and of the surrounding environment. The scope of the paper is to illustrate the mentioned advanced system, the difficulties found for its design and the results obtained. 2 The integrated supervision and control system The designed system is aimed at improving safety, security and emergency management in a totally automatic and immediate way or at aiding the personnel by means of an expertise information system, allowing the control and activation of any component present in Gran Sasso and connected to the supervision system, by means of local or remote consoles. The system not only is aimed at integrally control safety, security and emergency but it is also aimed at providing a series of advanced services (such as a innovative radio communication system) to the whole community that operates inside it or on it or live in the surroundings. The considered integrated system allows the maximum integration and communication of all the installations, devices and systems present in the Gran Sasso, both inside or outside it, and it guarantees their control and management in a totally automatic way, according to predefined procedures. The system includes an advanced radio communication and localization system, capable of operating both inside and outside Gran Sasso mountain, covering a wide area that extends from L’Aquila city to Teramo city and passing above it through Campo Imperatore high plane. This radio communication system, extremely innovative, is capable of ensuring an instantaneous link between all the subjects involved in safety, security and emergency situations and can be used, in ordinary conditions, from all the enabled subjects that operates inside, outside or in the nearby of Gran Sasso mountain. The system integrates the following components present in Gran Sasso mountain: 1) GSNL laboratories: a) radio communication and localization of safety, security and emergency personnel; b) wireless communication, localization and advanced information service of personnel [6]; c) video surveillance TV (internal and external); d) access control; e) anti-intrusion; f) public address; g) video information service; h) internal parking management system: i) interface with incidental lost liquid monitoring system, water source quality monitoring, fanning system, cooling system, experimental devices operating in the laboratories, electrical supply installations, fire and dangerous gas monitoring systems, environmental monitoring systems; 2) highway tunnels: a) radio communication and localization of safety, security and emergency personnel; b) predisposition for cellular phone communication system installation; c) video surveillance TV; d) optical fibre fire sensor; e) interface with technical installations, traffic management system, environmental monitoring systems; 3) external: a) radio communication and localization of safety, security and emergency personnel; b) interface with various systems and installations, environmental monitoring systems.
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